McHale provides the tools plant personnel need to accurately assess plant performance and make the improvements to maintain a competitive edge in today’s competitive market, including staff training and turnkey services for the following performance improvement functions:
• Component Performance
• Plant Performance
• Thermo-economic Modeling
• Thermodynamic Modeling
• Plant Efficiency Audit
• Root Cause Analysis Studies

McHale is a corporate member of the Cooling Technology Institute (CTI) and is licensed by CTI as an independent testing agency to perform acceptance and routine testing on cooling towers and related equipment. CTI licensor is held separately for thermal testing and drift emission testing.

As the global market technology leader for power plant performance testing and assessment, McHale understands the value of partnering with our clients to get the most out of their existing assets.  We work closely with our client’s personnel to find a viable optimization solution best-suited for their plant by developing a collaborative custom-tailored plan to improve performance, reduce emissions, improve reliability, and positively influence dispatch ability.

Knowledge | Skills | Results

McHale understands that performance monitoring is more than just numbers on a computer screen. It has to effectively link multiple plant systems together to convert data into usable information that is easy to understand. The presentation must be clear and constructive for the operations staff. Often, a performance-monitoring system will have multiple users with different needs. The system must be flexible enough to provide the appropriate information to each user. If it’s not simple to understand and work with, it’s just not worth the trouble.

The McHale organization maintains unparalleled performance engineering resources.  Our principals and staff have extensive experience in design, startup, test, operations, and instrumentation & control of power generation facilities. We have provided  engineering consulting, testing and analysis services to well over 200,000 MW’s of power plant capacity around the world, and this experience includes natural gas, fossil (coal, heavy oil, and distillate), renewable fuel, hydroelectric, geothermal, and solar plants.

McHale principals have served as expert witnesses on over a dozen domestic and international arbitrations and court cases associated with disputes within the power industry.  Our team is well versed in developing expert witness reports, depositions and testimony.

McHale’s Measurement Services provides measurement solutions based on your specific needs. No matter the industry, we will provide best in class measurement services to help you achieve your goals. Our services range from simple instrument rental/calibration to full on-site measurement services and consultations.

McHale Measurement Services knows the need for quick turn-around and highly accurate measurement solutions.  Whether your job requires quick troubleshooting and diagnostics or technically and carefully planned out test measurements, we can provide the response and expertise.
Flow Measurement

McHale Measurement Services has the ability to modify or build a measurement solution for your specific needs.  Not all off the shelf measurement devices work for your application; that’s where our fabrication department comes in to enable you to get the accurate data you need for your project.

McHale’s Measurement Services has extensive experience in measurement requirements and solutions.  Our seasoned team of Consultants, Engineers and Technicians can walk you through general and site specific issues that you may be facing.

We understand how important accurate measurements are for your day to day operations as well as helping keep up with periodic maintenance schedules and requirements of your entire facility or individual components. Let us help you ensure that you have the best measurement solution for your application.

McHale’s Measurement Services has in-house, mobile (domestic and international) and on-site Natural Gas Chromatography capabilities. We offer natural gas analysis and report to ASTM D1945 standards.

McHale Measurement performs calibration checks at the beginning AND end of each analysis day, ensuring that there was no drift outside of the accepted tolerances.

McHale’s Environmental Services understands the complexity of the issues faced by industries.  McHale has the experience and expertise to help resolve federal, state and local compliance issues for owners of emission sources
We have international expertise in sampling and analysis of air emissions, environmental engineering, and training in the use of sampling and pollutant analysis methodologies. Types of testing available include:

McHale’s Environmental Services provides clients real time monitoring support for tuning and optimizing emissions sources. We are experienced with many types of turbines, boilers and other sources. We perform turbine start-up activities, tuning, and CEMS RATA, Compliance and Guarantee Tests, and the pre and post shutdowns.

Utility-Scale Plant / Distributed Generation Facility Performance Testing / Evaluation Services
Plant and Facility Contractual Acceptance or Routine Testing and Improvement
McHale provides performance testing for the contract procurement of coal-based plants and components. Specifically, our performance testing is designed to verify contractual guarantees at the level of confidence expected by the parties of the contractual acceptance test and to ensure the successful closure of the project.

McHale provides performance testing for the contract procurement of natural gas-based plants and components; such as, LNG and LPG production processes and facilities. Specifically, our performance testing is designed to verify contractual guarantees at the level of confidence expected by the parties of the contractual acceptance test and to ensure the successful closure of the project. McHale provides benchmark status performance testing to our clients to ensure that plant performance has not degraded to unacceptable levels and to identify where program improvements can be made to improve efficiency, output, and economic performance. In addition, McHale can provide the required performance testing to verify the performance of individual units and multiple facilities to establish confident benchmarks for planning optimized coordinated plant operation and outage maintenance projects. These include:

McHale’s Performance Services provides performance testing for the contract procurement of natural gas-based plants and components. Specifically, our performance testing is designed to verify contractual guarantees at the level of confidence expected by the parties of the contractual acceptance test and to ensure the successful closure of the project. Our services provide benchmark status performance testing to our clients to ensure that plant performance has not degraded to unacceptable levels and to identify where program improvements can be made to improve efficiency, output, and economic performance. McHale can provide the required performance testing in order to verify the performance of individual units and multiple facilities to establish confident benchmarks for planning optimized coordinated plant operation and outage maintenance projects. These include:

As our clients are trusted stewards to this valuable natural resource, McHale Performance is a trusted advisor to our clients when it comes to providing high confidence testing and advisory solutions for determining and optimizing the plants performance.  When it comes to the bottom line, knowing and optimizing the plants performance over the projected economic life of the project is a fundamental contributor to the project performance. See how McHale Performance can become your partner in geothermal plant performance.  A sample of projects supported.

Whether you are going to rehabilitate existing units, desire to optimize performance, benchmark current status or procuring new hydro turbine; McHale’s proven track record of economical and effective testing methods, metrology equipment, and technical advisement has been central to maintaining and improving plant performance to our clients.  McHale is experienced in the application of codes and the particulars of how to go beyond codes when the situation dictates so to provide the parties to a test an appropriate code level confidence in the results.

As the world continues to transition its focus onto renewable sources of energy, McHale & Associates is utilizing its knowledge and experience from multiple energy sectors to support emerging technologies and renewable energy projects. McHale has been providing solution driven engineering, consulting, modeling and plant performance testing services for the solar energy market for over 10 years.

Our qualified test personnel deploy around the globe to conduct accurate testing in accordance with the approved test procedures and provide impartial testing results analysis and reports.

We encourage you to take a look at our valued services and how they can be leveraged to your success.

Power Performance Assessments / Technical Advisor / Test Code Specialists
Qualified & Impartial Test Personnel / Code Compliant and Calibrated Test Equipment

Whether it is contractual acceptance of an individual turbine, verification of the overall performance of a wind farm, or investigation into lower than expected Wind Turbine output and availability, McHale’s Renewables Services team is well versed in advising our clients in the proper testing techniques that will provide answers with confidence.

McHale’s Advisors understand the importance of each element required to ensure performance guarantees are achieved with confidence so to ensure the success of a project.

We encourage you to take a look at our valued services and how they can be leveraged to your success.